Abu Saleh al-Zoubayi

Ahmed Abdullah Jassim Zeidan Zubai, also known as Abu Saleh al-Zoubayi, was an Islamic State commander during the Iraqi Civil War.

Biography
Ahmed Abdullah Jassim Zeidan Zubai was born in Anbar Governorate, Iraq to a Sunni Muslim Arab family, and he was a member of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party under Saddam Hussein. al-Zoubayi served as the chief of Saddam's intelligence services in the city of ar-Rutbah under Ba'athist Iraq, and he would become a member of the Iraqi insurgents during the Iraq War after 2003. al-Zoubayi became a commander of the Islamic State during the Iraqi Civil War following the United States' withdrawal from Iraq, and Zoubayi commanded the recapture of ar-Rutbah from the Iraqi government in October 2016.